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'INGENIOUS... PROPULSIVE' Sarah Vaughan'TRULY ORIGINAL' Ellery Lloyd'FABULOUS' Nikki Smith An anonymous call. A mother desperate for justice.The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk.When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating...
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One unexpected call. One terrifying truth.
A heart-stopping emotional thriller about a mother who must trust an anonymous stranger if she is to find the truth about her daughter
One unexpected call. One terrifying truth.
A heart-stopping emotional thriller about a mother who must trust an anonymous stranger if she is to find the truth about her daughter
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'INGENIOUS... PROPULSIVE' Sarah Vaughan
'TRULY ORIGINAL' Ellery Lloyd
'FABULOUS' Nikki Smith
An anonymous call. A mother desperate for justice.
The Good Listeners are there for anyone who needs to talk.
When the phone rings, a Good Listener has no idea who could be at the other end. The woman cheating on her husband, the man who has lost yet another job, the teenager struggling at school...
And Clara is prepared for every kind of caller. Except this one.
Because the woman on the other end of the line has just told her ‘my husband killed a little girl.’
And two years ago, Clara’s own daughter was murdered and her killer never caught.
The police have no leads. This is Clara's only chance of justice. But when the caller is anonymous, what chance does she have of finding them?
A thriller with heart, a page-turner with depth, an unputdownable read: make Holly Watt's The Good Listener the next book you pre-order
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781526694577
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Raven Books
Edition: Unabridged edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 336
About the Author
A former investigative journalist, award-winning thriller writer Holly Watt now lives in Devon with her family.
@holly_golucky
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